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System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Blueflood vs. Derby vs. Hive

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	17.94
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Score	0.06
Rank	#353	Overall
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Score	4.71
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

blueflood.io

db.apache.org/derby

hive.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Rackspace

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Initial release

2012

2013

1997

2012

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

3.1.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Java

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Java Stored Procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles

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